Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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IRENE CASTLE MCLAUGHLIN (MRS. FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...
...word relative to the much heralded results of the United States Chamber of Commerce poll on the Federal Tax Reduction bill. Particularly the statement of Banker Pierson: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country." [TIME, Dec. 12] This statement is true but unfortunately the results of any Chamber of Commerce poll are not indicative of the opinions held by its members individually, for this reason: The local Chamber of Commerce has a membership of over thirteen hundred. Without first obtaining an expression from the individual members, six ballots were cast on the question. The reported...
...might be interested in an article which I have just written for the papers in response to Mr. Otto Lehman's statement...
...candidate for President!" cried American Farm Bureau Federation delegates, last fortnight in Chicago, at General John Joseph Pershing. General Pershing's teeth flashed but he said nothing. Newsgatherers followed him to his hotel. Said he: "What can I say? I do not talk politics and there is no statement I can make...
...Springfield, Ill., one Jim Hayes, murderer, made a statement: "Women got me into a peck of trouble, and, if I must hang for the murder of a woman, I don't want any more of them around to gloat over the spectacle." There were two women who were eligible to assist at the "spectacle." They were Mrs. Dorothy Tedell, policewoman, and Miss Nina Bowers, nurse. Said the sheriff, uninfluenced by the wishes of Jim Hayes, "These women will be allowed to witness the hanging...